TORTURE, EXECUTIONS AND PUNISHMENTS IN IRAN

Early day motion 650, tabled 4 November 2015 by Alan Meale (Labour). Signed by 37 members.

That this House is alarmed by the continuing steep rise in executions during Hassan Rouhani's presidential tenure in Iran over the last two years; notes the widespread sentencing of degrading and inhumane medieval judicial punishments, including public hangings and floggings, prisoners being paraded in streets, torture, limb amputations and eye gouging; recalls that the UN General Assembly recently criticised the Iranian regime's continued use of such practices, with its Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon stating that despite promises made, greater freedom for the country had not resulted in any major improvements in human rights; and calls on the Government to urge the international community to demand an end to such deplorable practices forthwith.

Signatures by party: Scottish National Party 14, Labour 11, DUP 4, Conservative 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Independent 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Plaid Cymru 1.